Grupo Osanimi /
The Osa Foundation
Project Update: 2000 - 2002
On the Osa Peninsula of Costa Rica
Note: Even though, since January 2000, 99% of our energies
have been dedicated to creating a home-base - Guaria de Osa (Orchid
of the Osa) - on the Osa Peninsula of Costa Rica , we managed
to accomplish a few other projects over the last two years.
2002 - The creation and development of Guaria de Osa, a rainforest
retreat centre and ethnobotanical gardens located on a wilderness
Pacific beach on the Osa Peninsula of Costa Rica that also serves
as the home base for Grupo Osanimi/Group Osanimi. We hope to begin
to raise funds for Grupo Osanimi/Group Osanimi projects from fees
raised by retreats and Sentient Experientials' journeys.
2002 - Grupo Osanimi is legalized as a non-profit in Costa Rica
with Group Osanimi as an Ecuadorian branch under the name of Fundación
OSA or Grupo Osanimi. OSA stands for "Organización Social
y Ambiental" –— translation: "Social and Environmental
Organization." So in a sense we are shifting from the name Group
Osanimi to Grupo Osanimi.
2002 - Our new, 501(c)3 non-profit sponsor is the Living
Bridges Foundation, a tax-exempt corporation based in Aptos,
California.
2002 - Our nursery at Guaria de Osa which contains rare and
endangered plants is planted, propagated and is now growing.
2002 - A work is in progress to declare Playa Rincón
de San Josecito which is located on the Osa Peninsula of Costa
Rica, as a turtle refuge. Funds are needed for this project.
2001 - A 7 - minute educational video was produced with the
beach community on Mangrove Reforestation in the Osa Peninsula.
1000 mangroves were planted on degraded areas.
In Ecuador
2001 - Funds have been raised from individual donors and from
the Tropical Rainforest Coalition for the Amazanga Community through
their indigenous foundation, Huanduk Yachai (meaning "Sacred Leaf"),
to purchase 125 acres of primary Rainforest bordering Sangay National
Park in the Llushin River Valley of the Pastaza Province of Ecuador.
This project is 'leap-frogged' by the Amazanga Community.
2001 - Funding has been acquired to hold a workshop among Secoya
elders and youth in the ancestral lodge of Secoya Territory.
2000 - Building of the Tui'que'hue'e, a Secoya ancestral lodge
in San Pablo Aguarico River, to serve as a community ethnobotanical
garden and cultural heritage revival teaching center.
2000 - Inauguration of the Ancestral lodge with approximately
45 Secoyas.
2000 - Repairing the Dawn Star Lodge, Cultural Revivification
Center, and Botanical Garden in Sehuaya Community in Secoya Territory.
2000 - Implementation and propagation of gardens by collecting
plants and rare cultivars. To date, we have approximately 75 species
of useful medicinal plants.
2000 - Donation for a wooden dugout canoe and a 40 hp motor
for the Secoya Women's Organization - OMSE.
2000 - A 25 hp motor was donated to the Secoya shaman to facilitate
his work in collecting plants up and down river.
2000 - Mobilization of bee hives and apiary to a spot closer
to flowering trees.
2000 - Completion of a Huaorani ethnobotany manuscript and a
proposal to seek funding to publish and distribute this book to
the Huaorani youth.
In Pucallpa, Perú
2000 - A proposal is drafted for the Usko Ayar School of Amazonian
Painting in Pucallpa, Perú, under the directorship of Don
Pablo Cesar Amaringo Shuna, to seek funds for purchasing primary
forest adjacent to the school. Funds are also needed to build
and furnish a third schoolhouse in the Pucallpa forest. During
our past Sentient Experientials journeys in Ecuador, over $20,000
in artwork were sold, all of which were channeled to the Usko
Ayar School where Don Pablo built a second school house in the
Pucallpa forest.
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